All it takes Alma Deutscher is four notes and 40 seconds. And, suddenly, these wondrous notes lift off into the air - Deutscher is 12-years-old, a musical prodigy capable of improvising a short piano ...

There can be little doubt that understanding how music works can help you to make better music; or, at the very least, make things easier when you’re at the composing stage of your project. Here, we ...

A melody is more than just a sequence of notes. Rhythm, variations in loudness and the length of musical phrases all enhance the sequence of notes to make a melody “original”. Each of these adds a ...